I can't really see a jury finding him guilty, maybe community service or something. The mental distress he has suffered at the hands of jw's is trauma, post traumatic stress syndrome, and he does see the jw's as a real threat to his well being and that of his family. He has sent letters and told and retold them NOT to come to his house. I know I have done the same, written NY, the elders got the letter from NY stating NOT to come to my home, told my jw that they had better not show up here again , yet they do. I am at my witts end, how the hell do you keep them away? Their own rules dictate that they not go to no trespassing houses. I have up no trespassing signs, no preaching, no book sales, no soliciting, etc.... My next move was to enlarge a pic of our house with our address clearly printed very large and walk in on a Sunday meeting and inform all of them at one time to stay away. After that they will not appreciate walking on to my property either. No, I will not pepper spray them. But I can sure see how it could come to that point. If they have continued to come to his house even with the detail records they keep on territory it is harrassment.
In a court room setting and the mental and physical distress Danny has suffered at the hands of jw's, I'm sure he could tell his story and there wouldn't be a dry eye in the room. What are the jw's going to say? If I don't get my hours in I may not make it to the big A? My elders will get on my case? I will get in trouble with the CO? I like to annoy people every Saturday morning? 'Yes, he is on the do not call list, is a known apostate who pickets around town but somehow I had the arrogance to think I could change his mind and bring him back into the cult.'
When do these jw's take any responsibility for their own obnoxious behavior? They have no 'right' to knock on doors and continue to knock when people don't want to answer as is often the case. They have no right to keep knocking on doors that have already requested they don't. What about the homeowners rights to be left in peace?
It makes no difference what jw's you know and how 'nice' they are, it is the perceived threat of Danny's that a court will see. Everybody has a breaking point, Danny found his. I would rather he had called the police and had them arrested but he didn't. Vigilanties can be either hero or villian, just depends on which way the reporter runs with it. You still have to take into account Danny's past with the jw's and what it has done to his health and family or lack thereof due to the jw's.
How would I feel if it was my jw? Well, if he kept harrassing a family over and over and over, you just gotta be damn stupid to keep doing it, somethings bound to blow. Frankly, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often with the stories I hear about jw's looking in windows, banging on doors and yelling 'we know your home!', and things of that nature.
Danny, maybe you need a big mean looking dog and put up signs that Fido eats jw's for breakfast. Nothing seems to have worked to keep them away. But then the politically correct crowd will just say your being mean and intolerant. Never mind what they have done to your life and that of your family and generations to come. Those poor innocent jw's have rights ya know. So do the Nazi's but society doesn't tolerate them do they? Why? Because people are educated about Nazi's, not so with the damage jw's do to families, life, finance, children, pedophiles knocking on our doors, sprirtual abuse, suicides, ............................................................
